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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's what you've learned about yourself, OP: you value feeling seen, heard, acknowledged, and remembered as much as you value the quality of your child's education. You will be better-served by paying for a smaller school system and student body.

However, it might also be worth taking to heart that it didn't even occur to you that there could be an occasion when acknowledging you, when you're doing just fine, might be a disservice to others who need resources more than you. This will come up again sometime when you are involved with a large organization of some kind. Work on thinking the best of people, and projecting outward, instead or wondering why they don't seem to care enough to make you feel good.[/quote]

OP here. Thank you - to say it again, it was not about making us feel good. We were just looking for a simple "Thanks for letting us know" kind of acknowledgement from the registrar/principal/someone - nothing else. We understand now the differences in the public and private school system are a LOT, in every sense. Not to imply in any sense one is better than the other -[b] but we were just used to one and expected the same from the other.[/b][i][u] [/quote]

But why in the world would you expect the same thing from a small private school for which you are paying tens of thousands of dollars as you would from a large school that is free?  A large part of what you are paying for is acknowledgement and hand holding.  That is something you value, and that's  fine if you have the money to spend to ensure you get that.
But expecting the experiences to be the same is like expecting the cashier at Target to give you the same service as the stylist at Nordstrom.  It's just not going to happen, and it's a little unusual to expect that.[/quote]

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